Making Safeguarding Personal

Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) is an initiative which aims to develop an outcomes focus to safeguarding work, and a range of responses to support people to improve or resolve their circumstances.

MSP means that the process of safeguarding adults at risk should be person-led, and outcome focussed; it engages the person in a conversation about how best to respond to his/her safeguarding situation in a way that enhances involvement, choice and control as well as improving quality of life, wellbeing and safety (Appendix 1 Care Act Statutory Guidance 14.15).

MSP is not simply about gaining an individual's consent, although that is important, but also about hearing people's views about what they want as an outcome. It is about engaging with people about the outcomes they want at the beginning and middle and working with them, and ascertaining the extent to which those outcomes were realised at the end.